16 And 17, Britannia Square

WORCESTER

SO8455NE BRITANNIA SQUARE 620-1/8/80 (South side) 22/5/54 Nos.16 AND 17

GV II

2 semi-detached houses. c1820 with later additions and alterations. Painted stucco over brick; hipped slate roof, party wall stack to front and rear roof slope with oversailing courses and pots. Canted bays in timber with dentilated and bracketed eaves. Timber-framed conservatory to left return. Double-depth plan with entrances in 2-storey wings set back to left and right return elevations. 3 storeys. 2 first-floor windows. Stucco detailing includes sills. 2-storey flat-roof canted bays (1/1:2/2:1/1) are mid c19; Second-floor windows are 6/6. 3/3 sashes to first-floor of wings. Door to left-hand house is 3-panel, upper panel glazed, bottom pair flush-beaded; French window in return wall; both accessed through lean-to conservatory; right-hand house has similar 3-panel door but upper panel is raised and fielded; plain semi-elliptical fanlights. Return elevations and wings are unpainted brick. INTERIOR: right-hand house retains some original features including panelled doors, architraves, picture rails; staircase with winders and square balusters; fireplaces on second-floor. Left house not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: A glazed structure is indicated on the left-hand house on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map drawn to a scale of 1:500.

All the listed buildings in Britannia Square (qv) form a unified group, started in 1820 and planned around a large green in which the main house is placed ('Springfield', qv). Compares with similar although smaller developments in a Worcester such as Lansdowne Crescent, Lark Hill, and Rainbow Hill Terrace (qqv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).